Zoya (film)
Zoya | |
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Directed by | Lev Arnshtam |
Written by | Lev Arnshtam |
Starring | |
Cinematography | Aleksandr Shelenkov |
Music by | Dmitri Shostakovich |
Distributed by | Soyuzdetfilm |
Release date |
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Running time | 95 minutes |
Country | Soviet Union |
Language | Russian |
Zoya (Russian: Зоя) is a 1944 Soviet biographical war film directed by Lev Arnshtam.[1] It was entered into the 1946 Cannes Film Festival.[2]
Plot[]
The film depicts the short life of a Moscow schoolgirl Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya who at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War became a partisan-infiltrator and was executed by the Germans in November 1941 near Moscow in a village Petrishcheva. She was posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union.
Cast[]
- as Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya
- as Zoya's Teacher
- Aleksey Batalov
- as Boris Fomin
- Rostislav Plyatt as German Soldier
- as German Officer
- as Owl
- as Zoya's Father
- as Zoya as a child (as Katya Skvortsova)
- as Zoya's Mother
- as Katya Tarasova
- Vladimir Volchek as Komsomol Secretary
References[]
- ^ Jay Leyda (1960). Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film. George Allen & Unwin. p. 379.
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: Zoya". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 4 January 2009.
External links[]
Categories:
- 1944 films
- Russian-language films
- 1944 drama films
- 1940s biographical drama films
- 1940s war drama films
- Soviet biographical drama films
- Russian biographical drama films
- Russian black-and-white films
- Soviet war drama films
- Russian war drama films
- Russian films
- Soviet films
- 1940s Russian-language films
- Soviet black-and-white films
- Films directed by Lev Arnshtam
- Eastern Front of World War II films
- Films set in Russia
- Films scored by Dmitri Shostakovich
- Russian World War II films
- Soviet World War II films
- 1940s Soviet film stubs
- World War II film stubs
- Biographical film stubs